According to press release sent out today by EliteXC, that Miami event featuring Kimbo Slice vs. Tank Abbott won’t be the first show that Elite puts on in 2008. “ShoXC: EliteXC Challenger Series” is scheduled to go down on January 25th in Atlantic City and will feature the following matches:

The event will be broadcast on Showtime at 11 p.m. ET/PT, and tickets are available here. At this point, we’re really only interested in the Kedzie/Evinger fight, which would establish a clear successor to Gina Carano, should she decide to leave the fighting life and pursue other opportunities full-time; both women lost to Carano in 2007.

And speaking of the “Beautiful Disaster,” a separate EliteXC press release has announced that Carano will be fighting on the February 16th card along with Ferguson/Abbott, Antonio Silva, and James Thompson. Again, we hate the Kimbo matchup, but the card is becoming undeniably stacked.

“We’re taking the time to build a little more infrastructure that’s all our own. Right now, we share a lot of it with HDNet and the [Dallas] Mavericks.”

There was talk that the February event would feature a rematch between Jason Miller and Frank Trigg, who won their bouts at last month’s “Reckless Abandon” card. HDNet Fights plans to hold its next event in early spring or summer.